The Grovewood Awards and their successors have always recognised young talent, but they can't foretell the future When circuit boss John Webb dreamed up the Grovewood Awards in 1963, his…

Formula One's ban on all testing until January has given the off-season a different look. No race this year to be the first team to clock up a hesitant handful…

It's spent decades hanging on a wall, but now the first-ever March Grand Prix car is to run again - 40 years after one lucky journalist got to test drive…

SIMON TAYLOR I KNOW WE'RE AU, FED UP wrai MICHAEL Schumacher monotonously winning Fl races: but it's still quite something that he tied up the title after barely 2000 of…

Sweltering in 34-degree Hockenheim heat during the German Grand Prix, I was amused to hear expressions of dismay about the plans to shorten F1's second-longest track into something more conventional,…

Understanding the FIA's new authenticity rules, which will allow replicas to race with period cars but aim for transparency In historic motorsport nothing is so contentious as the matter of…

Published in June 2006 FIA president Max Mosley works out of a small office in Monte Carlo, his balcony overlooking the blue Mediterranean. The phone rings incessantly: direct-line calls from…

Roy Salvadori, who has died shortly after his 90th birthday, was maybe the 1950s’ busiest racing driver. Talented and versatile, he combined a strong work ethic with an indomitable will…

It has taken an ex-Formula 1 driver with a hard business head to turn four well-loved British race tracks back to profit, as Simon Taylor finds out Photography: James Mitchell…

Part one, before the goldrush Some big names in Formula 1 can be unrewarding to interview. For understandable reasons, they are guarded in the presence of a journalist, and swathe…

He’s had a lifetime of racing whatever he could get, grabbing any opportunity, rolling with the punches when it went wrong, and never losing his laid-back, good-humoured approach. Having started…